If you have ever performed system administration work, check out the these comments on Slashdot. It is said that humor comes from being true to life—boy, is that the case here.
Coincidentally, these Slashdot comments highlight the major advantage Slashdot has over sites like Digg. Slashdot has a rich user community built into it. I often don’t even read articles posted on Slashdot (especially the ones that were covered already on Digg the week before 
. I read Slashdot for the level-5 comments.
I switched to Ubuntu Linux a few months ago and I have been very impressed. Ubuntu is the fourth Linux distribution I’ve used in my three years as a full-time Linux user. Other distributions I’ve used (in chronological order) are Mandrake, Red Hat, and SUSE. Already Ubuntu is my favorite so far.
Aside from Ubuntu’s excellent hardware support, one of the main attractions of Ubuntu for me is its APT (advanced package tool) software package management system. Using APT, I can select from over 15,000 software programs to install, uninstall, or update at a click of the button. This makes software management very easy (which has not been Linux’s traditional strength). In Ubuntu, I was able to find APT packages for specialized security tools such as dSniff, Nikto, and TOR, all of which I had to compile from source on SUSE.